NFTS graduates have won three major prizes at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) with the School scooping Best Short Film.
Director Gabriel Gauchet, (pictured above right) who graduated from the NFTS earlier this year, took Best British Short Film for his graduation film Z1. Recent graduate director Paul Wright won the Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director for his first feature film For Those in Peril. And graduate Clio Barnard’s film The Selfish Giant took home the prize for Best Technical Achievement, with Amy Hubbard recognised for casting the film.
Congratulations to Gabriel, Paul, Clio and their teams who included many NFTS graduates.
The awards were announced at glamorous ceremony hosted for the eighth time by actor James Nesbitt at London’s Old Billingsgate.
Created in 1998 by Raindance founder Elliot Grove, the British Independent Film Awards set out to celebrate merit and achievement in independently funded British filmmaking, to honour new talent, and to promote British filmmaking and British talent to a wider public.
NFTS graduates involved in these three winning films are:
The Selfish Giant
Director Clio Barnard
Editor Nick Fenton
Rerecording Mixer Martin Jensen
Development Editor Jamie Wolpert.
For Those in Peril
Director Paul Wright
Producer Polly Stokes
DoP Benjamin Kracun
Editor Michael Aaglund
Additional Sound Effects Recordist Dario Swade
Z1
Director Gabriel Gauchet
Producer Suzanne Mayger
DoP Charlie Goodger
Designer Isona Rigau
Production Manager Suzie Frize-Williams
Editor Alice Petit
VFX Supervisors Chang Liu & Kathleen Squire
SFX Artist Philip Chapman
Sound Recordist Michael Sinden
Boom Operators Thomas Markwick, Matthew Forrester & Amée Simpson
Sound Designer/Dubbing Mixer Raoul Brand
Composer Alex Harwood
Online Editor/Grade Chang Liu
Graduates were also involved in a further nine other nominated films:
Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England (Anna Higgs Executive Producer); Jonah (shot by Chloë Thomson with Jens Rosenlund Petersen as Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor); Dr. Easy (Executive Producer Anna Higgs, Line Producer Jessica Levick, Sound Mixer Tarn Willers, Consultant Editor Nick Fenton); Philomena (Editor Valerio Bonelli, First Assistant Editor James Devlin, Sound Editor Jason Price and Sound Assistant Michael Lee Taylor); The Great Hip Hop Hoax (Executive Producer Jonny Persey); The Moo Man (Composer Stephen Daltry); Everyone’s Going to Die (DoP Daniel Stafford-Clark; Supervising Production Designer Kristine Maj De Neergaard); The Machine (Dialogue Editor Ian Morgan); Titus (Supervising Sound Editor James J Morgan; Rerecording Mixer Steve Bond; Production Accountant Louise Malin) and The Patrol (DoP Stuart Bentley).
